The rise of recorded music together with more stringent copyright protection laws facilitated the development of the music business in capitalist society and more specifically the centralization of the American music publishing business and songwriters in an area of New York known as Tin Pan Alley in the late-nineteenth century. ... The organization of the popular music business entails a number of major and independent labels. ... Richard Peterson (1976) proposes a production of culture perspective in his analysis of the development and organization of the music business during the postwar pe...

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